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Click here for more Davies Turner takes a long view The UK-based freight forwarder is to acquire at least four more 15.65m long semi-trailers... Click here for more London Gateway officially opens The arrival of the 4900 TEU MOL CALEDON signals the start of operations at the state-of-the-art container port... Click here for more Cavotec books biggest MoorMaster order yet The €10M order has been placed by an undisclosed customer in the container terminal sector... Click here for more PACECO lands automated crane contract PACECO Corp will supply two automated cranes for the intermodal yard at the TraPac terminal in Los Angeles.... Click here for more Rail v road safety - no contest Rail accidents grab the headlines, but railfreight is much safer than road freight, claims a new study... Click here for more Height restriction threat to UK-Ireland trade A group of leading trade associations from the UK and Ireland have written to the European Parliament's Transport Committee asking it not to damage efficient trade flows between the two countries by imposing "unnecessary and unwelcome" height restrictions on goods vehicles.... Click here for more Charleston clean trucks initiative The South Carolina Ports Authority has announced a new Clean Truck Certification Programme for the Port of Charleston taking effect next year.... Click here for more Houston goes mobile The Port of Houston has introduced a smartphone App to enable customers to get container status information on a mobile phone.... Click here for more Virginia moves on The Virginia Port Authority Board of Commissioners has appointed John Reinhart Executive Director and CEO of the Virginia Port Authority.... Click here for more Greek Railways on the line The Greek privatisation agency Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has given the go-ahead for the purchase of TrainOSE by Russian, Greek, French and Romanian interests... Click here for more MOL COMFORT - preliminary findings from ClassNK Based on the evidence of water ingress in the bottom of the vessel's midships at the onset of the casualty event, the fracture in the hull is considered to have originated in this area... Click here for more Summa to sell TransContainer stake? Summa Group is reportedly seeking to sell its 23.7% interest in Russia's leading rail container operator... Click here for more US Intermodal grows again Figures from the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) show total intermodal traffic grew by 4.7% in the third quarter.... Click here for more Moorebank may go private Australia's newly-elected Liberal/National Coalition government looks certain to continue with the previous administration's controversial Moorebank Intermodal Terminal (MIT) in southwestern Sydney but is hinting broadly at greater private sector involvement.... Click here for more TPT moving strads back to Cape Town Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) is relocating several straddle carriers from its operations in Durban to the Cape Town container terminal.... Click here for more Reefer trade still on the rise Drewry Maritime Research's latest Reefer Shipping Market Annual Review and Forecast reports that worldwide perishable reefer trade increased by 52.1 Mt between 2002 and 2012, representing a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.6%.... Click here for more Brazil looks to coastal shipping Brazil's Secretariat of Ports (SEP) is developing a series of measures aimed at prioritising the country's coastal shipping services. It hopes to put its suggestions before state president Dilma Rousseff early next year.... Click here for more COA launches reefer services directory Following five separate incidents in 2011 of explosions relating to refrigerated container compressors, the Container Owners Association (COA) has developed a new global online database of refrigeration machinery repair companies.... Click here for more Port of Miami back on the rails Eight years after a bridge on the line was put out of use by Hurricane Wilma, the Florida East Coast Railroad (FEC) has restored the line linking its Haileah terminal to the Port of Miami. The project cost around US$50M and was part-funded through a US$22M TIGER Grant announced in 2011.... Click here for more JSERCS prototype ready Specialised reefer machinery manufacturer Klinge Corporation has completed the development of a prototype reefer unit for the US Army Joint Service Expandable Refrigerated Container System (JSERCS).... Click here for more More rail in France Six years after it was launched, the first long distance (1000 km) autoroute ferroviaire service between Bettembourg in Luxembourg and Le Boulou in France, next to the Spanish border on the Mediterranean side of the Pyrenees, can be counted a success story. In the past few years traffic has risen steadily and last year 56,000 trailers were transported with the Modalohr horizontal access wagons, and traffic in the first half of 2013 was up another 9%.... Click here for more Emerson rebrands Emerson Climate Technologies - Transportation Solutions ApS, has changed the name of its reefer container monitoring product to ProAct Transport.... Click here for more CPG grows in Indianapolis Cleveland-based ContainerPort Group (CPG) has shifted its container depot operations in Indiana to a larger, more centrally located facility in Indianapolis.... Click here for more GIP to exit Brisbane Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has put its 27% stake in Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd (PBPL) on the market and expects to complete a sale before year's end.... Click here for more MCI releases CA reefer film Reefer container and machinery manufacturer Maersk Container Industry (MCI) has released an animated film that seeks to explain the simple and affordable technology behind the Star Cool controlled atmosphere (CA) system.... Click here for more Fiji appoints port manager Sri Lanka's Aitken Spence has won a 15 year contract from the Fijian Government to manage the South Pacific nation's two major ports, Suva and Lautoka.... Click here for more Algeciras to receive Triple-E call APM Terminals Algeciras is scheduled to host its first 18,000 TEU vessel, MAERSK MC-KINNEY MOLLER on 5 November.... Click here for more Health issue in Baltimore CSX faces a new challenge to its project in Baltimore in the form of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of a new terminal on the surrounding community.... Click here for more Unsubscribing You can change your selection of content in your Market Briefing from WorldCargo News Online, or unsubscribe at any time. Click here and then click on 'Edit your email Alert' to modify your selection or to unsubscribe. If you have mislaid your password, enter your email address - angelo.evangelista2006.schedule@blogger.com - into 'Your email address' and click on 'Remind me': your password will be emailed immediately to that email address. Why not subscribe to the Market Briefing from Bulk Materials International? Just click here to subscribe and select the subjects that suit you. 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